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Theological Issues

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Halvorsson, Hans, and Helge Kragh. "Theism and Physical Cosmology," In Routledge Companion to Theism, edited by Stewart Goetz, Victoria Harrison, and Charles Taliaferro, 241-255. New York: Routledge, 2013.
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Ijjas, Anna, Johannes Grössl, and Ludwig Jaskolla. “Theistic Multiverse and Slippery Slopes: A Response to Klaas Kraay.” Theology and Science 11 (2013): 62-76.
Kraay, Klaas, ed. God and the Multiverse: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Kraay, Klaas. “Can God Choose a World at Random?” In New Waves in Philosophy of Religion, edited by Erik Wielenberg and Yujin Nagasawa, 22-25. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
Kraay, Klaas. “Incommensurability, Incomparability, and God’s Choice of a World.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 69 (2011): 91-102.
Kraay, Klaas. “The Theistic Multiverse: Problems and Prospects.” In Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion, edited by Yujin Nagasawa, 143-162. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave McMillan, 2012.
Kraay, Klaas. “Theism, Possible Worlds, and the Multiverse.” Philosophical Studies 147 (2010): 355-368.
Kretzmann, Norman. "A General Problem of Creation: Why Would God Create Anything at All?’ In Being and Goodness: The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology, edited by Scott MacDonald, 208-28. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991a.
Kretzmann, Norman. "A Particular Problem of Creation: Why Would God Create This World?" In Being and Goodness: The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology, edited by Scott MacDonald, 229-49. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1991b.
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Leslie, John. Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.
Manson, Neil A. "The 'Why Design?' Question." New Waves in Philosophy of Religion. Eds. Y. Nagasawa and E.J. Wielenberg. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. 68-90.
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Pagels, Heinz R. "A Cozy Cosmology." Modern Cosmology and Philosophy. Ed. John Leslie. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1998. 180-186.
Rowe, William. Can God Be Free? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Swinburne, R. "Prior Probabilities in the Argument from Fine-Tuning." Faith and Philosophy 22 (2005): 641-53.
Swinburne, R. "The Argument to God from Fine-Tuning Reassessed." God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science. Ed. Neil A. Manson. London: Routledge, 2003. 105-123.
Swinburne, R. The Existence of God. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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